Awsome pic of the day!!!

Heat wave and coyotes!!!!!

I guess June gloom is taking a break in my area today because its friggen hot as hell! Yesterday it was cloudy and seemed like it was going to rain and today its scorching. I had to clean out my little turtle's tank and the water that spilled onto the concrete evaporated almost instantaneously. Crazyness! This wouldn't be so bad if we had a pool but instead we have the side of a small mountain full of wildlife. The coyotes have been getting bolder and bolder lately, I don't know if it is because of the weather fluctuations or what but they have been coming out in broad daylight. They are so cute and beautiful but at the same time they can be deadly. A couple of days ago me and my brother were coming home and a dog was chasing two coyotes down the street. We tried to follow them in the car to make sure the dog wasn't going to be mauled, seeing as our little chihuahua was bitten by a coyote and thank GOD he survived! It was really messy and I had to give in antibiotic shots in his puncture wounds with this plastic tubing. The scary thing is we couldn't find where the dog had gone that was chasing the two coyotes. We say the smaller of the two coyotes go back up our street and heard him calling for the rest of the pack to come down but we never found that dog:( He had a collar and we hope he just went home after the coyotes split up but it really makes you nervous to have pets outside now. :'(

Awesome pic of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~Thoughts on Phlebotomy~

Drawing people's blood all day can get so repetitive, and yet every person you get its a new scenario. You never know if they're going to be an easy draw or have no usable veins at all. Old people and heavy people are usually the harder draws (except for kids of coarse). In heavier people half the time you cant see or feel any vein. This is never fun because those cases the veins are usually really deep so the whole needle has to go in to catch the vein (straights are more then an inch long too). Some older people you can see all their veins because their skin is paper thin, but that doesn't mean any of them are usable! It's always a little worry some when this happens because when your palpating for the vein it's sometimes hard to tell if its actually a vein or a tendon. The human body seems to soften with age making this a problem and you NEVER want to hit a tendon or bad BAD things will happen. Every time you call a new number for the patient to come in you never know what your going to get, so in this sense the phlebotomy hours are unpredictable and ever changing!

Phleb TUBES!!!!!!!

Summer Time

It's hard to believe that today is already the 7th of June! It seems like I just got out of school, already the summer has begun to waste away. So many things to do in such a small amount of time. I really need to make the most of this summer too seeing as it will be my last... If things go the way they plan I'll be doing my hospital rotations next year leaving less then a month between my last school semester and the year of full time work and full time school at the hospital. My life will basically be owned by the hospital/school needing every waking moment to tend to the last agonizing stretch of my school career. So hence the terrible thought that this will indeed be my last full summer before the hospital and my actual career take the remaining summers away from me.... so I'd LOVE to hear any cheap interesting summer ideas you think I should do with my remaining time in the comments!!! Remember cheap because I'm a broke ass college student lol ;D Thanks for the love people!!!<3

time gap

I am soooo sorry for the time gap between my blog postings.... after finals week was over things got a little crazy. I moved back home for the summer and started my phlebotomy internship at the hospital. For those who don't know what that is, basically I preform venipunctures (drawing people's blood). It doesn't really have a whole lot to do with my profession seeing that once my hours are up I most likely will never do it again once I graduate and start my real job at the hospital. Nevertheless unfortunately they still make us do it. At first it I was really nervous but now it is almost second nature. I have rotated through the four different sections of the hospital we are required to do (general hospital, obstetrics=pregnant people, pediatrics=kids, and oncology=cancer people.) The worst by far was pediatrics... the screaming, dear god the screaming!!!!! lol but seriously that one was the worst so much screaming and crying you couldn't hear yourself think! Nearly everyone I worked with was really nice though and they helped to quell my initial nervousness. It's a real vampire's job, all you do is draw person after person taking their blood :) lol

MONDAYS=DOOM

       Monday again....uhhh and the Monday of finals week too. So much to do so little time, you know its sad when you wish there was just one more day to study. Very sad when you want more time to spend it cramming haha. At the same time finals can be a nice thing seeing as soon as you walk up to turn in the test or when you walk away from giving a presentation that class will be over forever (assuming your passing that is haha). Never again will you have to trudge to that room for that specific class or study or do anything for it. The routine you spent your life in for the past 4 months will be over, all that work you put in will finally been sewn shut as you leave each final. Sad... but not that sad haha.